Remote Administration of Dialup Box for My Sister
Hello All, First of all, I will be a newbie at this venture. I have used SuSE 7.x for some time now. I have my home networked, my cable routed all through SuSE with some win98/Me clients, so I know how to do that. I will be setting up my sister's home network this weekend. She will have win98/win98se boxes, but on my advice with connect to the net through a linux box that I will set up as a router/gateway. She lives 1-1/2 hrs away. I will be using 10/100 RJ45 cards with a hub. She will access the net via dialup (ppp, wvdial). The linux box will be a 486-DX280 (if I can get it to go, otherwise a 486DX-33). I will be setting up wvdial.dod, iptables, SuSefirewall2 (1.7), ppp, wvdial, and just a minimal install on the linux box. But since she lives so far away, I would like to know and learn what to set up so that I can dial in to the router/gateway to handle any problems but yet maintain a secure setup. I do not want to use smoothwall, as I know linux is more secure for this venture, so please don't suggest smoothwall. Therefore, what services, daemons, programs are minimally needed to do this? I have all the manuals from my 7.2 Pro, so I can read them and not waste bandwidth on howto, jsut need to know what I need to include on a minimal install. Thanks in advance and Best regards, Keith B.
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:48:13AM -0400, kbb0927@cs.com wrote:
But since she lives so far away, I would like to know and learn what to set up so that I can dial in to the router/gateway to handle any problems but yet maintain a secure setup. I do not want to use smoothwall, as I know linux is more secure for this venture, so please don't suggest smoothwall.
Actually, Smoothwall *is* built on Linux. I wouldn't use it for other reasons, though...
Therefore, what services, daemons, programs are minimally needed to do this? I have all the manuals from my 7.2 Pro, so I can read them and not waste bandwidth on howto, jsut need to know what I need to include on a minimal install.
If you're willing to log in over the net (and therefore have both machines connected at the same time), you need 'ssh' (see the openssh package in SuSE). This provides an encrypted connection to the other machine. Make sure you leave the SSH port (22) open to the outside world (or at least your own IP address) when you set the machine up. Of course, make sure you run a firewall, (SuSEfirewall2 seems to be pretty good - easy to set up...) If you want to dial into her machine directly, then you need to set her machine up as a PPP server; see the PPP-HOWTO. HTH... -- David Smith Tel: +44 (0)1454 462380 (direct) STMicroelectronics Fax: +44 (0)1454 617910 1000 Aztec West TINA (ST only): (065) 2380 Almondsbury Home: 01454 616963 BRISTOL Mobile: 07932 642724 BS32 4SQ Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk
On Friday 28 September 2001 1:10 pm, Dave Smith wrote:
On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 08:48:13AM -0400, kbb0927@cs.com wrote:
But since she lives so far away, I would like to know and learn what to set up so that I can dial in to the router/gateway to handle any problems but yet maintain a secure setup. I do not want to use smoothwall, as I know linux is more secure for this venture, so please don't suggest smoothwall.
Actually, Smoothwall *is* built on Linux. I wouldn't use it for other reasons, though...
Therefore, what services, daemons, programs are minimally needed to do this? I have all the manuals from my 7.2 Pro, so I can read them and not waste bandwidth on howto, jsut need to know what I need to include on a minimal install.
If you're willing to log in over the net (and therefore have both machines connected at the same time), you need 'ssh' (see the openssh package in SuSE). This provides an encrypted connection to the other machine. Make sure you leave the SSH port (22) open to the outside world (or at least your own IP address) when you set the machine up. Of course, make sure you run a firewall, (SuSEfirewall2 seems to be pretty good - easy to set up...)
If you want to dial into her machine directly, then you need to set her machine up as a PPP server; see the PPP-HOWTO.
HTH...
SmoothWall will do all of this for you! And it's based on VA-Linux. Version
0.99 has just been released and has significant improvements on 0.98,
including dial-on-demand. There's also a good user network to get advice etc.
M
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Martin Webster
kbb0927@cs.com wrote:
But since she lives so far away, I would like to know and learn what to set up so that I can dial in to the router/gateway to handle any problems but yet maintain a secure setup. I do not want to use smoothwall, as I
Keith B.
You will need mgetty, pap-secrets, ppp, etc. Configure those (including inittab), dial in, and su to root for working on the system. HTH -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris "All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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